Senior Demand Planner

2 weeks ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Room At The Top Recruitment Full time

**Senior Demand Planner**

The Senior Demand Planner will report into the Associate Director Of Supply Chain Management, and in the role is accountable for the Sales & Operational Planning for the all the divisions of the commercial UK business the role plans for.

**Duties, Responsibilities, Activities**:

- Managing planning parameters and planning item master data in SAP
- Monitor monthly performance of sales and forecasts to identify and communicate trends that indicate gaps
- Lead communications to business units and cross functional management on issues related to product sales forecasts
- Chair the monthly forecasting meeting as part of the SOP process
- Chair and lead the monthly SOP meeting
- Integrate external / industry standard best practise into the internal processes to be shared with the wider team
- Support the delivery of both Global and UK Region Supply Chain Strategy through management of broader initiatives and projects
- Create
- maintain and develop effective and collaborative working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders
- Work with Sales and Marketing on global demand forecast accuracy KPI target of 80% per month
- Working with the Senior Supply planner and UK commercial finance team on IQV each month working with sales and marketing to limit write off and achieve IQV target each month
- Cover for the Associate Director of Supply Chain Management where necessary
- Manage NPD within commercial team and Introduction of new forecast
- Coordinate with global supply chain to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions
- Working with Sales and marketing to ensure we have two year rolling forecast always in place in SAP.

**Experience**:

- Experience in Demand planning in a pharmaceutical or FMCG environment
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Senior Demand planning role
- Demonstrated highly developed numeracy skills through qualification or experience
- Ideally Degree educated

**Behavioural Competencies**:
**Core**:

- Self-motivated
- Well-organised
- Excellent communication skills
- Cross function team player

**Advanced**
- Collaboration with people on site and off site
- Motivating others in UK Commercial Team
- Interpersonal savvy
- Prioritisation of tasks on daily and weekly basis

**Technical**
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel knowledge, e.g. charting, pivot tables, slicers, data manipulation
- Problem solving skills
- SAP Intermediate Knowledge of how MRP works in SAP and demand forecasting
- Three years minimum experience of running a SOP monthly cycle
- Understand of how to use Aera reports and dashboards

**Customer Focus**:

- Ensuring we meet customer service levels and our Internal KPI’S on service levels
- Working with the customers to ensure we have there demand visible in SAP and ensuring we can meet their requirements

**Organisational Information**:

- To contribute to commercial operations team as a member of the Supply chain team
- Close collaboration and working with commercial finance/sales/marketing and reg affairs and quality team as well as global supply chain contacts
- Working with Contract manufactures and our customers on forecasts

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